Using a different visualization type

Visualizations communicate comparisons, relationships, and trends. They emphasize and clarify numbers. To choose a visualization type, consider what you want the visualization to illustrate and what will appeal to the audience for the visualization.

1. Select the visualization that you want to work with.
2. Click the Change visualization icon in the toolbar.
   
   The toolbar is located at the top of the dashboard by default. Click the undock toolbar icon if you want to move the toolbar to a selected visualization.
3. Click the visualization type that you want to use.

   Take a look at how each visualization type communicates data differently. For example, use a bar, column, or line visualization to compare a set of values. Use a line or area visualization to track relationships. Use a tree map or pie visualization to see the parts of a whole.

4. If you select a visualization type that requires different data slots to be used, add a column to each empty data slot that has an asterisk (*) in it.